So I was feeling imaginative and creative the other night and decided to cook up some burgers with a twist.

AS in… a jalapeno, bacon, and cream cheese twist, because those ARE three of the best flavors God ever came up with… and all that combined with the smoky flavor of grilled red meat?!?

Oh. Yeah.

Dice a couple of jalapenos, crumble a couple of slices of cooked bacon, and combine all that with an 8-ounce block of softened cream cheese.

Mmmmmm. Bacon.

Spoon some of that mixture into the center of your ground beef patties….

…and form the patties around the cream cheese center.

Repeat with as many more patties as you care to cook, or until you run out of ground beef and/or cream cheese filling.

Throw those babies on the grill until desired doneness… and enjoy.

While these burgers were pretty much delicious… they weren’t my favorite, I’ll be honest. And if we ever decide to do these again, here are my suggestions:

• Salt. We did not salt these burgers, and they needed it.

 

• Dice the jalapenos more finely… as in, pulverize them in the food processor. And while I LOVE jalapeno FLAVOR, I don’t relish biting into an overly large tear-inducing chunk of one in my burger, but that’s just me. Personally, I think more jalapenos, but more finely minced, would have been ideal. 
• More bacon. Naturally. Because there are very few problems in life that MORE BACON is not the answer. And stir the bacon into the ground beef, not into the cream cheese. OR perhaps into both… more bacon would solve the salt problem.
• Form the meat into super-thin patties, then put the cream cheese in between two patties, rather than trying to form the patties AROUND the cream cheese. If that makes sense.

Always in pursuit of the perfect burger recipe….